Beauty News

Flat Lens Offers a Perfect Image

Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses. At... 

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• Adolescents Who Have More Than Four Meals a Day Are Thinner

Fitness Tips

Feeling Fat May Make You Fat, Study Suggests

They're everywhere — in magazines, on the Internet, on television — people with super-thin bodies who are presented as having the ideal body form. But despite the increasing pressure... 

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• Middle-Aged Adults Help Their Hearts With Regular Leisure-Time Physical Activities

Weight Loss

Hormone in Fruit Flies Sheds Light On Diabetes Cure, Weight-Loss Drug for Humans

Manipulating a group of hormone-producing cells in the brain can control blood sugar levels in the body — a discovery that has dramatic potential for research into weight-loss drugs and... 

• Early Human Ancestors Had More Variable Diet
• Black pepper fights formation of fat cells

Diabetic

New Target for Treating Diabetes and Obesity

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a potential target for treating diabetes and obesity. Studying mice, they found that when the target protein... 

• White Blood Cells Mediate Insulin Resistance: Neutrophils’ Role Is a Surprise and a Potential New Target for Treating Diabetes
• Vaccine May Help in Type 1 Diabetes

Hair Loss

Hair Regeneration from Adult Stem Cells

Research group headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji demonstrates regenerating "functional hair regeneration from adult stem cells" Substantial advance in the development of next-generation... 

• Gene Therapy Holds Promise for Reversing Congenital Hearing Loss
• Myths about female hair loss:

Drugs

Breakthrough to help block morphine addiction

Sydney: In a major breakthrough, scientists have shown that it is possible to block addiction to morphine and heroin, while boosting relief from pain. A team from the universities of Adelaide... 

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Family Health

Most Mutations Come from Dad: New Insights Into Age, Height and Sex Reshape Views of Human Evolution

Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have... 

• Ramadan fasting not linked to preterm births
• Study Says Pregnant Women Should Get Flu Shot

Skin Care

Protective Role of Skin Microbiota Described

A research team at the National Institutes of Health has found that bacteria that normally live in the skin may help protect the body from infection. As the largest organ of the body, the skin... 

• Skin Cancer Identified for the First Time in Wild Fish Populations, Beneath Ozone Layer Hole
• Strawberry extract protects skin from uva rays